567
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16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
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6 years ago
502
900
15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/electoral-college.html
494
121
Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
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465
199
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443
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388
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Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
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383
97
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354
110
Whistle-blower reveals N Dakota leak of 11M gallons of gas condensate in 2015
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336
215
Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why
https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling/
324
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WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-types/
302
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Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-20/hong-kong-chinese-students-propaganda
292
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WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company
https://hbr.org/2019/08/no-wework-isnt-a-tech-company-heres-why-that-matters
272
104
Why does all life use the same 20 amino acids?
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246
A dream of an ultimate OS (1995)
http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/DreamOSPaper.html
241
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Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/introducing-cloud-run-button-click-to-deploy-your-git-repos-to-google-cloud
218
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Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negative Yields
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216
122
Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49415973
213
113
Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B
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206
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GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys
https://github.blog/2019-08-21-github-supports-webauthn-for-security-keys/
203
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Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers
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229
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184
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On me, and the Media Lab
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-media-lab/
179
90
A new AMP update shows how it can infiltrate every corner of the internet
https://onezero.medium.com/google-is-tightening-its-iron-grip-on-your-website-27e06b3150e0
164
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The Browser Monopoly
http://blairreeves.me/2019/08/20/the-browser-monopoly/
Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/
161
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Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/here-are-the-82-startups-that-launched-on-day-2-of-ycs-s19-demo-days/
159
73
Libspng – C library for reading and writing PNG files
https://libspng.org/
151
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The Art of PostgreSQL
https://theartofpostgresql.com/
149
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CTVT – A contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/ctvt-tumor-broke-all-rules/595246/
148
91
Manufacturers want to quit China for Vietnam, but find it impossible
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86
AdoptOpenJDK: Open-source, prebuilt OpenJDK binaries
https://adoptopenjdk.net/
136
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https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/security-flaws-caused-compiler-optimizations
34
Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics
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125
12
CERN Open Data Portal: Explore more than 2 PB of open data from particle physics
http://opendata.cern.ch/
195
My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/my-apology-regarding-jeffrey-epstein/
11
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http://ruder.io/state-of-transfer-learning-in-nlp/
G.E. Is Accused of $38B Fraud
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/business/dealbook/ge-fraud.html
120
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An oral history of the AIM away message
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118
33
Trails of Wind: Data Visualization of the Architecture of Airport Runways
https://trailsofwind.figures.cc/
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35gd8/nobody-knows-why-hundreds-of-people-died-at-this-creepy-himalayan-lake
111
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Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data
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109
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General Electric: A Bigger Fraud Than Enron
https://www.gefraud.com/
108
36
Cold War spy technology we all use
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48859331
30
Linguistics Using Category Theory (2018)
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_using_category_the.html
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A recent paper proposes to bring zeppelins back
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/zeppelins-stopped-flying-after-hindenburg-disaster-now-scientists-want-bring-ncna1043911
102
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A 127-year-old physics riddle regarding the Kelvinangle in boat wakes solved
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-year-old-physics-riddle.html
100
The 'microworkers' making digital life possible
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48881827
98
21
A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematical-model-unlocks-the-secrets-of-vision-20190821/
96
Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide
https://iavisa.com/
92
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27
Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with Go, React and TypeScript
https://github.com/amborle/featmap
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https://github.com/neil-lindquist/linear-programming
85
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Keanu Reeves will return as Neo in new ‘Matrix’ film
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-08-20/the-matrix-4-movie-keanu-reeves-lana-wachowski
83
24
K2pdfopt
https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
40
New saltwater electrical generation could power submarines or medical devices
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Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses
https://www.iou.ch
80
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https://apnews.com/bac6a76b8c0d4f8897d2c8612d2b5bfd
79
10
LogicENN: A Neural Based Knowledge Graphs Embedding Model with Logical Rules
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07141
77
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https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/08/20/taking-a-look-at-hs2s-huge-old-oak-common-station/
76
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Modern JavaScript tooling is too complicated?
https://changelog.com/jsparty/89
75
16
One-lined Python
http://www.onelinerizer.com
89
Run .NET Core Apps Directly from a GitHub Gist
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39
DoorDash still hasn’t changed its tipping policy
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Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics